The True Hero

Awkward Meeting

Later on that day, I went to see Willow just before dinner started.

"Willow, you know how we were supposed to blend into the background?"

"Yes. Why?" She narrowed her eyes at me.

"Well, I was doing just that but I met a girl, Hermione Granger and she introduced me to her friends so that I wouldn't feel lonely."

Her face relaxed.

"So what, you made a couple of friends, it doesn't really matter as long as Harry doesn't notice you."

"That's the problem, Harry is one of Hermione's friends..."

She sighed.

"I knew you would end up meeting him at some point but so soon Buffy, really?" Her voice became more and more anxious.

"It's not like I knew Harry was Hermione's friend." I said defensively.

"Okay, okay. We are going to have to contact Giles." Willow told me calmly.

"How are we going to contact him with nobody seeing us?"

"I'll work something out. Meet me after class is finished tomorrow."

"BUFFY?" Oh great. It was Harry.

"Yes?" I turned around and asked him politely.

He didn't say anything but glared daggers at Willow.

"You must be Harry." Willow said in a cheery, polite way, ignoring Harry's angry look.

He finally spoke.

"Don't ever refer to me as my first name again, Slytherin."

It dawned on me that Harry mustn't have realised who she was.

"Harry, this is my friend Willow, remember from the sorting?"

"Oh." He turned to Willow. "Sorry I thought you were.... well..."

"It's okay, you had no idea who I was." Willow told him sweetly and calmly.

"Willow heard about my breakdown in class, so she wanted to check on me to see if I was okay." I explained, giving Willow a look that said 'just go along with it.'

Harry suddenly turned to me.

"You are okay right?" He asked concerned.

That question really annoyed me. I hated him so much, so how could he possibly care about me?

"Yes I'm fine." I told him as politely as I possibly could.

"Okay that's good to know. We better go to our table now, dinners started. Nice meeting you Willow."

"You too. Bye Buffy."

"Bye Willow!" I called out as I followed the annoying famous, brat to our table.